The World Health Organization had its hands full in 2024, dealing with several outbreaks while trying to raise more predictable funding for its work.
The agency capped the year off with the opening of the WHO Academy in Lyon, and Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus spending Christmas week in Yemen to negotiate the release of detained U.N. staff members — while narrowly escaping death from an Israeli attack on the Yemeni airport in Sanaa.
But 2025 promises to be equally busy if not more so for the United Nations health agency as it implements an ambitious new program of work while rallying member states to get the pandemic agreement to the finish line by May.
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Jenny Lei Ravelo@JennyLeiRavelo
Jenny Lei Ravelo is a Devex Senior Reporter based in Manila. She covers global health, with a particular focus on the World Health Organization, and other development and humanitarian aid trends in Asia Pacific. Prior to Devex, she wrote for ABS-CBN, one of the largest broadcasting networks in the Philippines, and was a copy editor for various international scientific journals. She received her journalism degree from the University of Santo Tomas.
